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New Bulls forward Noa Essengue 'is prototypical of what the NBA wants right now'
WSCR-AM / 670 The Score
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6/26/2025
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He is prototypical of what the NBA wants right now.
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When you look at the rosters of teams that won in the playoffs,
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they've got a lot of guys that are built the same way that Noah Essenge is built.
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The question is, do we hear two-way a lot with this?
00:18
Two-way, two-way, two-way.
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How many other, though, one of the Bulls' biggest problems, if not biggest problem is,
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they've got a lot of one-way guys.
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You can't have four one-way guys and one two-way guy
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and think that anything's going to happen on the other way,
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which is the defensive way, right?
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So, listen, I think the ceiling's outrageous.
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If he's Scottie Pippen, Siakam, okay, great.
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But it's a long way to go.
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He's 18.
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The first word that came to mind when I saw the pick made, honestly, was underwhelming.
00:56
And I don't know that that's a fair reaction because there are reasons to believe that he's going to be a very good NBA player.
01:07
You look at his background and you see how he projects and why he fits and all the patient approach.
01:15
It's defensible.
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It's a defensible pick.
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It just seemed underwhelming for me personally because I think there were other players on the board that you preferred.
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There were other players that maybe you knew more about.
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And this is very much a curiosity.
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Noah Essengate is not somebody that the city of Chicago, most basketball fans, know a ton about.
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Now, we're not all Stacey King and we didn't all call the shot and understand what they're getting necessarily.
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This is a very patient pick because it's a front office that feels very secure in what they're doing.
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And you can like that or not and you can resist that or not, but it's the truth.
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And this confirms that.
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They're not in any rush to get to the top four of the Eastern Conference, apparently, because this is going to take some time.
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And I think if we pulled the tape a year ago, the morning after the drafts, they picked Montes Pazellas.
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We said some very similar things.
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So maybe this will be another example of that.
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But I was definitely...
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